these are all god's children whether they are here or around the world and if these are abandoned children and willing and able and fit parents here who can take care of them why on earth would you have them languish in the institutions. it is a heartbreak and i know we will pray for you and all of the american families now in limbo. we he hope mrs. clinton and the entire state department, i know they are working on this. >> please. >> laura: i will help them and a lot o of people will help them. i will do whatever i can to help break this log jam. we wish you the best of luck. just house keeping do not forget i will be back on the radio wednesday january 2. a happy new year. that is it for us today. thanks for watching. the spin always stops here because we are looking out f fox newsthis is/zi alertc?kxñ retired general has

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let him take the country over the fiscal cliff if he so chooses. they were elected to get the fiscal house in order. now is the time for republicans to stand up for your kids and grandchildren. maybe she the should say they're looking out for the future, future generations maybe now is the time to take a stabbed stand and say they're not going let washington continue with this out of control spending, debt, maybe now, at this moment, maybe that is the right thing to do. and joining me now with reaction to this developing story are two house republicans, congressman louie

gomert. welcome back to "hannity". >> good to be with you. >> sean, i can -- . >> sean: go ahead. >> i can sympathize that he can not imagine our consciences in the house because you'd have to have one to aimagine ours. and he's shown repeatedly, over three years of no budget? come on. jm%lx

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pay this off? >> it seems tozc)ñ my, congressn gomer this has been the bush tax cuts have been lost since what? twun and 2003? seems that if the president fiscal cliff, you guys pass a bill. he hasn't done in three years. they can pass in the senate give it to the president, then nobody's taxes are going to go up. prices averted then, they candlg spend time after the new year negotiating tax reform, çd living within our means. why don't they just do that? >> well, they could. if they want to demonize the house. without doing anything, in the way of legislating. and sean, if you look back at ceiling bill back a year and a half ago had a super committee. you and i knew it wasn't going to work. one of our republican senators made up a pro pose yl to raise taxes and two senate democrats

reported to have said wow. this is a break through. we can get a deal now. we'll be able to work this they go talk to president obama and hairy reid, come back to say, sorry we're not atloud work the deal. they didn't want to deal then. they don't want a deal now. it worked out well for them not to allow a deal last time. they blamed us last year. them and it worked and got go over the cliff? blame republicans. not let the senate pass anything. we get away with it, again. >> allmúwu right. here is the quandry l dilemma. congressman

the republicans hold the line on the principals they ran on? or do you expect that maybe principalled leadership.i#ç$ does that exist? >> i think it does. the house acted. we acted on august 1 last week rejecting a proposal from our gone where the president wants to go and raise taxes onc-?9t certain folks. the senate has not acted. they haven't acted for 1337 days on a budget and on months on this issue. we knew the end of the year was coming and knew taxes would go up. here, we see hairy reid demanding the house do something. they're working bills within the fiscal cliff bills. mr. reid, go to work. you've had years to lead this senate. go to work on that. i think we have principled leadership. >> i agree. >> often timesn0 i'm worried

and the real issue is spending. it's a spending problem. the issue just came up. >> right. >> so where do we go from here? congressmanvbñn gomer? it's been put in the senate in their hands wex heard from hairy red today. moving forward. i understand the president is reac republicans in the senate. but they don't have the rightbw to originate constitutionally spending bills from there. where do we go from here? >> well, either the senate will do their constit/2ajal duty of taking a bill that originated in the house, and dealing with the issue and pass their version of it. then it would go a conference committee where compromise gets worked out.sqç hairy reid is becoming the cliff diver here by saying we're not going toq#éy let our house, senate'>pzg house, funct.

we're going to dive off the cliff and blame the republicans and every ledge down the way. >> gentlemen. good to see you. we're going to continue to monitor this. happy new year to both of you you, too. >> good to see you, sean. >> sean: continuing this special fiscal cliff edition we continue to monitor latest developments surrounding this cliff. we'll be joined by charles kraut hammer and more, and then, later tonight new york governor takes a very controversial stance on gun controls when it comes to weapons, he's mentioning the word confis skaigs. -- confis skaigs. >> it could be an option. correct? >> correct. >> we've never done that before. >> that is a form of confiscation. [ laughter ]

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found these comments by the house minority leader so over the top, and very little criticism, very little notice in the media, but i think it's important that we highlight it, especially in light of the shooting. watch this. >> it's somewhat like taking your child hostage and saying to somebody else, i'm going to shoot my child if you don't do what i want done. you don't want to shoot your child. there's no republican leader that wants to default on our debt. >> juan, i know you would never support something like that. but you would think, is there any little sensitivity here? >> i agree. we don't need that kind of right now. we don't need it. and i think this is his point, republicans have been playing hardball, and i think when you say the president hasn't made concessions, i think you are off base. i think the president said

listen, it's everybody, it's 98% of the americans that he wants to give an extension of the bush tax cuts to. and he negotiated and said i will go up to 99%, 400,000. so he lifted that rate. >> wait a minute. >> and then he raised the -- >> wait a minute, hang on a minute. >> wait. here you have a major concession by john boehner, which ultimately the republicans weren't going to go along with. but he said he would increase rates. he went to $1 million. >> yeah. >> the president mocks him publicly and said, oh, i won, and he said, oh, he wants to give tax cuts to those that make $900,000 a year. does that sound productive to you, juan or does that sound like he was rubbing it right in his face? >> you can't blame president obama and the democrats for the fact that republicans, his own republicans, abandoned john boehner, took away his power to negotiate with president obama

and pretty much went home and they are still at home. it's unbelievable. three quarters of the american people think compromise. and compromise includes spending cuts and tax hikes. >> can i get a word in, guys? >> brent, the republicans passed a bill. the republicans pass it had. senate democrats haven't passed a bill in 1300 days. you have to be kidding me. >> it's much easier for the democrats to sit and file their nails and say those awful republicans. look at those awful republicans go. the democrats haven't done anything. now what is the opposition to this super tax on the greedy rich? well, the republicans have argued for 20, 30, 40, 50 years that high taxes stifle economic growth. president obama said two years ago when he didn't do this two years ago, he said the wrong thing to do in a bad economy is to raise taxes. now suddenly both sides are considering doing exactly that. you've got three different

studies of that shown that if you raise these taxes, you are going to kill somewhere between $700,000 and -- 700,000 and 1.1 million jobs. but all that not be standing, it has nothing to do with the issue. the issue has been, will continue to be, spending. >> okay. >> that's what no one wants to talk about. >> no, wait a second, brent. everybody wants to talk about it. i mean everybody says we have to do something about spending in this country. today the treasury secretary geithner came out and said we are going to approach, you know, the debt ceiling much more quickly than we anticipated. so everybody, republican and democrat. and i was just saying to sean here's the president saying we've got to do something about spending. simpson-bowles was asking for $2 billion or something in tax hikes. he's down now to 1.2. saying we have to do something in terms of limbing the rate of growth by changing the gpi to entitlement spending.

>> but, juan, here's the problem with everything you just said. it's just lovely rhetoric. it doesn't mean a blasted thing. you have revenues of $2.5 trillion entering the treasury. folks, understand the size of that. that's $2,500,000,000,000. and we're being told we can't live off of that, we need -- right now we are spending $3.6 trillion. this is insanity. someone has got to have the backbone to come up with specific -- stop talking about how we need to cut. come up with the cuts. the republicans -- >> stay right there. i'm going to ask you about that when we get back but we are taking a sledgehammer and robbing our children blind and stealing from them. and the fact that very few people aren't talking about it is one of the reasons that i think we need people of principle in washington. we will come back. after the break, michelle malkin and charles krauthammer will be

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welcome back to "hannity." we continue with juan williams and brent brazell. so the senate doesn't do their 1300 days, they don't pass a budget because they are too gut less to pass a budget. >> oh, come on. >> they won't put it on paper. the president last week is playing golf, 18 hours on the golf course. more than i have spent in a year. and he's now holding the line,

if i have this straight here, for what amounts to 8 1/2 days of government spending. he's willing to raise everybody's taxes and hold the country hostage over the issue and the economy hostage because he so wants his rate increase for 8 1/2 days of spending? tell me where the sense in that is. >> you know, you know, i'll give you this. you are strong on principle, sean. but let me tell you something, you are way, way out of line with the thinking of the american people. it's something like 60% now, i think it's in the mid-50% of americans who approve of president obama's handling of the budget negotiations. the president cut his vacation short. and you talk about the senate doing nothing. >> let me ask you this. >> the senate has passed a bill that would give an extension of the bush tax cuts to 98% of americans, sean. 98%. john boehner, a guy i like very

much, but john boehner's ratings are now lower than nancy please sis. that's what the american people think about the way the republicans have handled it. >> the senate hasn't done their job in 1300 days and somehow, brent, the blame is on the republicans who did pass a bill, and president obama, of course, the media in love with him, there's been no criticism of him either. >> look, i disagree on two points, juan. where the senate is concerned, let's also keep in mind this. republicans and the house have passed hundreds of bills of that never seen the light of day because every single time harry reid refuses to bring them up for a vote in the senate. so for this man 20 turnaround and stay that the republicans are dillydallying when it's the republicans who have been showing up in the house for two years and he's done nothing is

adommable. the president is playing this very well. this is a masterpiece on his participate but it's also a complete obfiscation. and right now, juan williams, you tell me what president obama has said he would stand unand cut to balance the budget. >> he said he would change our rate of growth in the country, the cpi. >> can you believe talk. >> he's talking about medicare and republicans have talked about eligibility age. >> juan, double talk. give us specifics. >> if you limit the rate of growth, you will see that we will spend less money. that's what we want to do. >> the quintessential washington answer. it's the quintessential washington answer. now give me a specific. we have $3.6 trillion in spending. that's 1.1 trillion above what we can afford. what of the 1.1 trillion has the president recommended we stop spending money on?

>> what we are saying here is what you don't do is take a hatchet. what you do is slow the rate of growth of these programs, brent. that's the way you do it. you don't want seniors thrown out. you don't need people who need education denied education. >> zero cuts? >> no, not zero cuts. and we talked about even john boehner take saying yes in terms of age of eligibility to get into medicare, that's a major step for our country. it would reduce spending. >> republicans are playing the same game. i'm not saying republicans are squeaky clean on this. i think some of them are guilty, as well. but no one has the guts to do what everyone campaigned on. everyone campaigned on restoring fiscal sanity and blah, blah, blah. no one's got the guts to do it. >> let me answer brent's point. juan said something 20 me a moment ago i want to aggression. juan, you said maybe i'm out of touch. maybe i am, juan, but to me it's immoral what we are doing by

stealing our children's money. and, juan, i don't think we are able to pay it back. and there's nobody in washington in this whole debate, and brent is right, there's some republicans, as well, that are just willing to make any deal to make this go away. >> oh, gosh. >> but to steal from our children this way and smash open their piggy banks is a morale disgrace. >> and it's not immoral to crash the entire economy? in other words, to say, oh, yeah, wall street go crazy, global economy collapse, and say we did it because we stood on principle and raised taxes on everybody because we stood on principle? that doesn't help our children, sean. >> juan, the republicans -- wait. >> the republicans passed a bill. the bush tax cuts, of that been on for 11 years can continue. that's up to the president and harry reid. >> 98%, if they just say to what the president is offering, 98%. in fact, it's up to 99 if you go up to the $400,000. >> but the president made fun

and mocked speaker boehner. >> oh, my gosh. >> when he said let's do it at a million. and the president said you are supporting those that make 900,000. >> that's not negotiating," sean. >> juan, you are talking about what doesn't matter. eye not taxes, it's spending. i know the comfort zone. the comfort zone of the left is to talk about the greedy rich that won't pay their fair share." it has nothing to do with this. >> i wish you would listen to the idea that compromise is not a bad word. >> okay. okay, then, fine. let's all agree on tax cuts for 98%. >> how about we compromise on spending? juan, if we don't -- >> let's lower -- >> juan, i have a plan. i like the mac-penny plan. you cut one penny out of every dollar after you freeze spending for six years and we will balance the budget. washington is incapable. it's a drug. it's heroin, crack cocaine all wrapped up in one and they

refuse to do it because their power is predicated on it. >> i think you will see that there are republicans that understand we want to do it in a way that allows our economy to continue to recover, that does not endanger the world economy. as we approach the cliff, that's what we are talking about. >> the real cliff is america has become a greece. thank you both. >> happy new year's, guy. >> good to see you both. coming up, what exactly is going to happen if we go over the so-called fiscal cliff. what happens to your wallet. we will detail the five ways this is going to impact your family, your wallet and your finances. and also new york governor an drew cuomo is ready for a fight over gun control. he's even talking about confiscating weapons. how far is he going to go? all of that and more later. and sam donaldson tells tea party america this is not your country anymore.

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and --. >> i'm actually with brite-bart news, just to let you know. >> okay, i apologize. let's start with the basics. what does this mean for the average american if, in fact, december 31st comes and goes we go over the cliff? keri? >> first of all, it will be like a twilight zone for a lot of people in the middle class. it's almost like you will have a number of people who were trying to actually get into the upper income levels and then all of a sudden rod sterling is going to come along and say, yeah, guess what, you are rich, but you are going to lose everything. for one thing, we are going to see the -- we are going to see a number of people lose their jobs. about 3.4 million jobs are projected to be lost according to the cbo. we are also going to see the obamacare tax hikes hit us if you don't have healthcare then you are going to be hit with a

penalty. if your employer doesn't provide you with healthcare, they are going to be hit with a penalty. also, the amt tax patch, if they don't fix that, then -- alternative minimum, and that will not us. about people in the middle class who never thought they are going to get hit, they are going to find out they are well think. those are a couple things that are going to hit a number of people in this country. >> charles, let me go through it real quick and let you respond to each and every one of them, if i can. the first one will be, of course, the doc fix that kerry was just talking about. it would also mean capital gains where the capital gains rate will go as high as 55% for many americans -- i'm sorry, it will go up to 20% from 15%. estate tax goes to 50%. obamacare taxes for many individuals will be .9% on those

earning over $200,000. that's another full percentage point. also we have a penalty tax will be imposed on the individuals. and also some employers. then on top of that we have, as kerry mention the, the alternative minimum tax patch. so we have five huge consequences right out of the box. you cover the economy every day. what does that mean to you and how does that affect the average person that will watch this go through? >> a lot of people entered the new year thinking i can't wait to file my taxes so i can get my tax return check. here is the irony and we will start from the bottom of the list. amt is my favorite thing to talk about because it's also known as the wealth tax. it was created 43 years ago because evil, greedy people were not paying their quote, unquote, fair share. this time it could affect $34 million people starting at $74,000. why? it was never indexed for

inflation. it was one of these taxes put into plate for punitive measures very much like legislation we see all the time now, not to help the economy, but to somehow punish those people who seem to have the upper hand on all of us. as far as everything else is concerned, unemployment, let's talk about that. anyone receiving extended unemployment benefits, kiss those good-bye january 6th. the economy, it won't collapse january 1st, but the snowball starts to roll and the further it rolls the faster it rolls and becomes a concentric circle and becomes a giant boulder that could take five or six percent out of our gdp by the end of the year. >> ironically the alternative minimum tax is supposed to hit the wealthy but millions of middle income people will be hit here. and an interesting observation, will are people that will see their estate taxes, after they paid tacks their entire lives, will go up to 55%.

that's how much the government will take. after you paid all your tacks the government will get more than half of what you have left. that includes the gold in your teeth and maybe some spare change in your pocket. pretty sad. that is confiscator to more than anything else. >> also known as the death tax. keep in mind, sean, the estate tax also, it actually lapsed in 2010 and there were jokes going around saying it is time that people should pull the plug on the relative? but remember it came back in 2011 and it ended up coming back at 35%. but if you go over the cliff it goes up to 55%. >> all right. unbelievable. guys, good to see you. great information. we will continue to follow it. appreciate it. coming up, president obama returns early from his vacation, or so he says. charles krauthammer is here to analyze the anointed one sometimes what we suffer from

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krauthammer. charles, merry christmas and happy new year. >> thank you very much. you too. >> let's look at the politics of this. we saw what happened with the plan b. the senate has not passed a budget in over 1300 days. president goes off, 18 hours on the golf course, 20 hours in the air. how do you view this politically and should republicans even consider that? >> well, i don't begrudge him his holiday. i do begrudge what he's done in this fiscal cliff talks. it's been very clear from the beginning that he had no intention to solve the fiscal issues. he's been using this, and i must say with great skill and ruthless skill and success, to fracture and basically shatter the republican opposition. the only, you know, redoubt of the opposition is the house. and his objective from the very beginning was to break the will of the republicans in the house and to create an internal civil

war and he's done that. how did he do it? from also insisting from day one after the election that the republicans had to raise rates. there's no reason at all to get the revenue that he needed and that the speaker was offering him that you had to raise rates. obama himself, as you know, said last july, july, 2011, you can get $1.2 trillion by eliminating loopholes, which is exactly what republicans offered him. so why did he insist on the rates? he said that is what he will insist upon, and that was the ultimatum. he did that because he knew it would create a crisis among the republicans and it did. so right up until now obama has what he wanted, which was a partisan, political success. he's been less worried about the fiscal issue for two reasons. number one, he does not care about debt. he hasn't in the four years. and number two, he thinks he's a political winner ifer the cliff. he thinks he's holding all the

cards. >> all right. charles, let me agree with one point. you use the term, and i will concede that's the perfect term, ruthless skill. but, as bob woodward pointed out when he wrote this book about the grand bargain negotiations, it's not going to be looked at through this historical prism as the boehner era, this is the obama e.r.a. if the economists are right and things don't go well for the country, doesn't the president have to worry about that legacy of his? >> i agree with you entirely. i have argued from the beginning that republicans should hold out. that they had more strength than they thought. that obama wasn't holding all the cards. i think he has the advantage obviously because republicans in all the policy are the ones who will take the blame. but nonetheless, the larger issue, if you are obama, is not who is popular and who is not, he's won his last election. that doesn't matter anymore. what obama does care about and

should care about is his legacy. if you go over the cliff he may get a bump temporarily and the republicans will take a hit but his legacy will be his second term. and if he wrecks the economy, as he would, by not being able to remedy the consequences of going over the cliff, then he's going to have a failed second term and a failed history -- history will remember him as a failed president. now, what he probably thinks, if he can go over the cliff, the republicans will take a hit, he will have public opinion behind him and then he can undo the damage one issue at a time by getting a reduction by a return of the majority of the bush tax rates, standing unemployment, whatever else he wants to do he can get that one piece of legislation at a time so that he won't suffer the consequence of a second recession of 9% unemployment. so i think that's his calculation. but i do think that he's putting a lot in jeopardy. if we go over the cliff, it's going to be a very shaky response probably from wall

street. consumer confidence is going to be hit. he could be damaged more economically and the country would than i think he imagines. so i think he could be overplaying his hand. i think he's been doing that in terms of the fiscal issue. >> i also think, charles, one more example of him rigidly clinging to his radical ideology of his. and let me go to the republican side of it. i've been saying the same thing. i think the republicans had a much stronger hand than they even new. now with the debt ceiling being reached again, they have the power of the purse. the question for them is what is in their best interest politically in is it in their best interest to stand on their principle, that i would argue they should be rewarded for, or is it better for them to capitulate, and as i hear there are a lot of republicans that will take any deal that obama will give them because they are scared to death. >> i think the republicans will have a much stronger hand,

assuming we go over the cliff, assuming obama stays very hard line and offers only humiliating conditions, the republicans resistor do nothing, then we go over the cliff, then i think you are right. the republicans have a pretty strong hand because obama then has to worry about the debt ceiling. now with he says that's a game i won't play. he has to play. he's the president. he's responsible for the full faith and credit of the united states. and he's got republicans in charge of the house. that's the will of the people. that's the result of an election. and they have a man date -- mandate as much as he does. he may not like it, but he has to. that's are the republicans i think has the stronger hand. if you don't cave now and you hang on, the republicans will be in a position in the next month or two, i think we will really hit the wall on the debt ceiling probably the end of february, beginning of march, and that's

when i think they will have the upper hand or at least an equal hand. >> as long as they don't give that away in these negotiations. charles, good to see you. >> thank you. it's a pleasure. >> new york governor andrew cuomo says he would not rule out confiscating at least some guns. will it lead down a slippery slope in we will see. and sam donaldson has a message for the tea party. >> the greatest slogan that i hated during this past campaign was we want to take back our country. guys, it's not your country anymore, it's our country and anymore, it's our country and you are part of it. [ dylan ] this is one way to keep your underwear clean. this is another! ta-daa! try charmin ultra strong. it cleans so well and you can use up to four times less than the leading value brand. oh! there it is. thanks son. hey! [ female announcer ] charmin ultra strong has a duraclean texture that can help you get clean while still using less.

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talk over the gun control continues in the wake of the newtown school shooting tragedy. new york governor andrew cuomo is taking it to to whole new level. during a radio interview last week governor cuomo said he will consider all options when it comes to gun control legislation, including confiscation. listen to this. >> you could say confiscation could be an option, right? >> yeah. >> sale -- >> we've never done that before i don't think. >> mandatory sale to the state could be an option. >> that's a form of confiscation. >> permitting could be an option. keep your gun but permit it. so there are a number of options. >> now if lawmakers are willing to confiscate certain guns from law-abiding citizens, what else are they willing to do in here's nationally syndicated columnist and author michelle malkin is with us. thanks for being with us. >> thanks, sean. >> when you hear a governor talk about confiscation and you look at senator feinstein's proposal

for assault weapons bans. this is an all-out attack against gun owners rights. i want to get your perspective. >> you bet. i think we owe governor cuomo some thanks, at least for being honest or having a momentary lapse of candor here and highlighting and exposing of the true agenda of the gun grabbers. this is not about honoring the newtown victims or doing anything practice to try to prevent the next mass shooting and massacre and horrific event like we had there. this is another cynical exercise in futility and political exploitation of a bloody tragedy. it gives lie to the long time denial of so many of these anti-second amendment groups who are always trying to reassure law-abiding gun owners that, no, no, we're not going after your

guns. you are being paranoid. you can actually go back and look at the new york times on august 7th, 2012 and you will find a smug liberal op-ed writer who trashes the nra and gun owners for warning about what exactly this kind of confiscation scheme that andrew cuomo is spelling out. and you are absolutely right to point out and pair this flotation of this proposal a long with what is coming down the pike on capitol hill. it's not just about confiscation, it's not just about a registration scheme that would demonize and criminal lies behavior of law a i had booing gun owners but it's about the mandatory sale or buy back program that both feinstein and cuomo have been pushing for for a long time. and remember that the reintroduction of the assault weapons ban, quote, unquote, is

something that dianne feinstein had in the works in the immediate aftermath of the election even before the newtown massacre occurred. >> you know something, michelle, what really strikes me is it's very interesting, we broke, and rightly so, our presidentings, our politicians, hollywood stars, they all have armed guards protecting them. we protect our money with armed guards. but when anybody mentioned maybe protecting children in our school system with armed guards, they are viewed as extremists. you mentioned exploit ago tragedy here. is there any law that could have been passed that would have prevented this from happening? anything you can think of? >> well, look. connecticut already had a so-called assault weapons ban and it didn't stop that monster from doing what he did. these kind of massively restrictive gun control laws certainly don't stop the bloodshed in obama's chicago, which we talked about last week, or in washington d.c. where so

many citizens are not protected by armed guards the way that the privileged elites on capitol hill or eelites on so many in the liberal media who are crusading for the gun control laws enjoy. i think what you are getting at and many of us have pointed to is the hypocrisy and double standard among those who have a concealed weapon for me but not for thee agenda, and that includes people like dianne feinstein, who herself was a concealed carry holder when she was in san francisco and the likes of chuck schumer and jay rockefeller who owned an ar15 and michael moore and so many of these elites. now we have the demonization of people who suggest that maybe it should be local school districts and communities that take matters into their own hands. i pointed to a great example here in my own home state of colorado. in west cliff colorado where a

local city councilman wrote me and told me about a sheriff's jut reach program to citizen volunteers who have been protecting their local school district for ten years now, getting training and working jointly with the sheriff's departments. i think that andrew cuomo maybe ought to talk to his brother, chris cuomo, who himself a member of that liberal democratic family has also endorsed the idea of armed guards in school districts. there are so many other things that do not infringe upon liberty or the second amendment that could go much further along towards preventing the next mass tragedy than what they are proposing now. >> and rob emmanuel's kids are protected by armed guards and the president jokingly said i ran so i can have men with guns around my daughter. and let me ask you about sam donaldson's comments. it's not your country anymore. he actually said these words.

i want to get your reaction to this. >> the minorities re-elected president obama but i'm going with her. the tea party and the thinking of the tea party and thinking like that that are driving the republicans out of contention as a national party. you cannot win nationally if you don't know something about the way the country has changed and the tea party thinks the country can go back 25 or 30 years. the slowing gal i hated was we want to take back our country. guys, it's not your country anymore, it's our country and you are part of it. but that thinking is going to defeat republicans nationally if they don't get rid of it. >> there he goes. the new tone and civility. i think he has been living in the d.c. bubble way too long and probably hitting the sauce too much. it's par of the long-time demonization of the tea party and talking about people who disagree with so many millions of people out there who adhere to the same principles of the founding fathers did.